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[WWW] Unix gegen Analphabetismus



[Als Nachtrag zum Thema "Code ist Sprache": der Umkehrschluß ist
 nicht automagisch wahr, auch wenn die Sapiro/Whorf-Hypothese
 "Sprache beeinflußt Denken" ihre Meriten hat.]

Linuxtoday hat einen hervorragendes Editorial von Martin Vermeer zum Einsatz
von Unix im pädagogischen Bereich, ein wenig linuxlastig, aber so sei es:

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/1846.html
(Linux Today: UPDATED: Unix as an element of literacy)
Zitate:
   ...
   The basics to be taught -- presumably on the secondary school level --
   would include: using vi (probably the only modal editor anybody will
   ever see!), using the command line, file system directory structure,
   mounting, finding and understanding configuration files, writing
   simple programs (such as "hello world") in C, shell or perl, regular
   expressions, basic networking (ping, traceroute etc), ftp, email,
   usenet, mark-up languages, overview of the way standards are created,
   e.g., in the Internet Engineering Task Force, and other essentials.
   ...
   One reason for the high initial success of the Soviet space programme
   was their high proportion of engineers in decision-making positions.
   The recent economic successes of Germany and Japan have a similar
   basis. A country where there are more lawyers than engineers (and
   perhaps relatedly, more prison inmates than students) cannot expect to
   have a technological future. ...

Auf dieser Seite weitere Zuckerlinks:

http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html
  (UNIX As Literature)

http://www.edventure.com/release1/1198.html
  (The Open-Source Revolution)

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue28/vermeer2.html
  (A Tale in Writing)

Feiertägliche Grüße,
ralf
-- 
A country where there are more lawyers than engineers (and perhaps
relatedly, more prison inmates than students) cannot expect to have 
a technological future.                                    (Martin Vermeer)
http://www.tmt.de/~stephan/